From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:40985 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991AbbALMdz (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:33:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:33:51 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Tejun Heo Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , David Howells , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/12] block_dev: only write bdev inode on close Message-ID: <20150112123351.GA29325@lst.de> References: <1420739133-27514-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1420739133-27514-5-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <20150111173209.GK25319@htj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20150111173209.GK25319@htj.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:32:09PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > Is this an optimization or something necessary for the following > changes? If latter, maybe it's a good idea to state why this is > necessary in the description? Otherwise, It gets rid of a bdi reassignment, and thus makes life a lot simpler. I'll update the commit message.